Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
16 - 22 July 1998
Issue No.386
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Current issue | Previous issue | Site map

Ismail Sallam

Health Minister Ismail Sallam arrived in Baghdad on Friday with a delegation of businessmen and doctors to sign contracts with Iraq under its oil-for-food deal with the United Nations. Egypt agreed to take in Iraqi patients unable to get proper treatment at home and struck a deal to dispatch Egyptian experts to Iraq to repair damaged medical equipment. Sallam, a trained heart surgeon, operated on three Iraqi patients during his visit.